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Making Life Fair

Freedom Wizard Wrote: May 16, 2012 11:18 AM

Right On, Pistol! I was one who joined the Air Force for the right reasons and decided to leave after 9 years so I could explore my 'entrepeneurial interests'. Now 70 years of age and looking back I would be financially better off if I had stayed until retirement (at the age of 39), and then gone into the private sector. But the bureacracy, political game playing, and lack of incentive based on merit in the AF was stultifying! So I left! And soon I will be leaving Kalifornia...for the same reasons. Texas here I come!

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Making Life Fair

When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so. President Obama used the word "fair" in his last State of the Union address nine times.

We are imprinted to prefer a world that is "fair." Our close relatives the chimpanzees freak out when one chimp gets more than his fair share, so zookeepers are careful about food portions. Chimps are hardwired to get angry when they think they've been cheated -- and so...

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